Model 500

Help discover the music gear and equipment Model 500 uses. Help find out the studio equipment, software, headphones, DAW & software, plugins, and other instruments used by Model 500 in the studio and in the live setup.

Studio Equipment 2

"As the Detroit style matured, the techno minor triad was featured in front o... more

"As the Detroit style matured, the techno minor triad was featured in front of minimalistspiralling keyboard riffs and the rat-a-tatting of the Roland TR-808, as in the classictrack ‘Off to Battle’, a more sophisticated effort by Atkins, now working under the nom-de-microprocessor Model 500. (He took the name from the Roland MC-500 MicroComposer, one of the first affordable digital sequencers.)" - page 16

What kind of gear were you using when you did your seminal Cybotron track, Cl... more

What kind of gear were you using when you did your seminal Cybotron track, Clear, at the beginning of the 1980s?
"Well, I wasn't using no software! We were using a Korg SQD1 [Korg's groundbreaking MIDI recorder/sequencer],